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Obedience means acting in response to a direct order, usually from an authority figure. Some people have a problem doing this, but if a society is to work obedience is said to be necessary. Many psychologists have investigated obedience: * Milgram (1963) * Hofling et al(1966) * Feldman & Scheihe * Meeus & Raaijmakers (1995) Milgram studied how far people will obey authority, even if it means harming someone. In this experiment 40 men volunteered for a study about 'learning and money', not knowing it was actually to test obedience. In this experiment the participant taught an acting participant word pairs, every time they answered incorrectly the participant had to give them an increasing level of an electric shock (the acting participant didn't actually receive any shocks he just acted like he did). In each level there was a title to each shock e.g. 'slight shock', 'moderate shock' and so on. It was predicted that...

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